The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

Oldest and best citizens. He leaves lis
children, grandchildren and great-grand.
children.
A colored man named Martin fell from
the new capitol building in Atlanta, Ga,
few days ago, distance of seventy five
feet, and was instantly killed.
Joseph Landrum and Elijah Raleigh,
wealthy farmers of Jefferson County,
KY, met few nights ago at Jefferson
town and renewed an old quarrel. Ian.
drum attacked Raleigh with knife, cut
ting him severely. The men were sepa-
rated and started for their respective
homes, Raleigh in a wagon and Landrum
on horseback Landrum rode ahead, and
securing rifle, returned and shot Raleigh
in the abdomen, infiicting probable fatal
wound.
William l. Gracey prominent citizen
of Sparta, Tenn, committed suicide few
days since, shooting himself with
double -barreled shotgun. He placed the
weapon on the ground, and with q stick
touched the trigger, the load entering the
stomach. Gracey died almost instantly.
He was ffty-fve years old and leaves
eleven children. Financial embarrass-
ment caused the deed.
The cotton crop reports for the Memphis
district are in the main quite favorable,
though some complaints come from Ar
kansas of too much rain.
Hawkins Carley, deputy county treas
urer of Logan County, Ark, is under ar
rest for rObbing the safe of the Logan
County treasury in February last Hiram
and JEFF Fort and Henry Nichols, of Paris,
Logan County, are implicated.
William Aimis on, of ashville, Tenn,
was reelected president of the Inter
rational Typographical Union.
At Bartlett, Tenn, few days since,
ten-year-old colored boy named Richard
Smith deliberately blew out the brains of
an eleven months-old baby, because its
parents, with whom he had been living,
had severely fogged him the day before.
jeff. Miner, an ex-convict, residing at
Luther, Tenn, having attacked Thomas
Greene, was stabbed twenty tunes and
shot through the head. Miner died and
Greene surrendered to the authorities.
In Fayette County, GA, the five sons of
Widower Hamber married the five
daughters of Widow Starnes. To COM
plete the family union, the boys mother
in-law was joined in wedlock to their
wives father-in-law.
William McElroy, colored, was riding a
mule at Lebanon, KY, the other day,
when the animal SHE'D and threw him
His feet became entangled, and the mule
dragged him a considerable distance. He
was horribly mutilated, and died in few
minutes.
Otto Board, a white boy, in Nashville,
Tenn, last Christmas, has been convicted
of murder in the second degree, and given
ten years Imprisonment.
John Woody, one of the posse who re-
Gently raided the Bates homestead, in
Polk County, Tenn, and killed Avery
Bates, was waylaid and fatally shot few
nights ago, near the Bates place. He
was walking along the highway return
inn mil nd ia To
been shot by one of the friends of Bates.
DIR. Merino and other Cuban physicians
who are familiar with the symptoms,
deny that the disease prevalent at Key
West is genuine yellow fever, and assert
that it is merely malignant accllmating
fever.
Secretary Lindsey of the Tennessee
State Board of Health has received an
official report from Health Officer Blan-
kenship of Maryville, Blount County,
concerning the epidemic of dysentery at
that place. Since the outbreak there had
been twenty-five cases and seven deaths
IN Maryville and the surrounding coun-
try.
A tank Of gasoline exploded at Chat
tanooga few days ago in the two-story
brick building at the corner of Fourth and
Market, and spread with great rapidity to
the grocery store of j. Moering and the
Morgan House, three-story frame struct-
ure. The occupants barely escaped with
their lives.
Albert H. Hoef1lp, treasurer of the To-
cal assembly of the international Cigar
Makers Union at Louisville, KY, was ar
rested a few days ago owing to his failure
to make good shortage of 81, 406 He had
been given two weeks to make up his
deficiency, and could only raise 800. He
was released on a bond of S. 900. Hoefii n
is a member of one of the best German
families in the city.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee, after
a two months session, adjourned a few
days ago after having disposed of $40
cases. Every case on the West Tennes-
see docket has been dispos ed of for the
first time in twenty-five years. Every
body IS loud in praise of the present
Supreme Bench.
Great excitement was caused at Hen
derson, KY, a few days ago, by the
shooting of Prof. E. S. Clark, Superin-
tendent of Public Schools, by Prof.
Thos. Posey, principal of the High school
Bad feeling has existed for some time be-
tween the parties, owing, it is said, to the
fact that Prof Clark had used his infu-
ence to prevent the re election of Prof.
Posey.
Joe Mckinley Cicero Evans and John
Helton live on adjoining farms near Ma
gan, Ohio County, KY. They are all
young married men and Woodworking
farmers, but their latest crop beats any
ever before harvested by them. Mrs. Nc
Kinley a few days ago gave birth to trip
lets, all girls. The day following Mrs.
Evans presented her lord with twins, and
the next day Mrs. Helton added two more
boys to the local population.
DR.. Matthews, a colored hOodoo doctor,
was sentenced at Chattanooga, Tenn, a
few days ago, to three years'imp mpisonment
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. A man named Holland was arrest
ed and put in Jail. The hoodoo doctor went
to Hollands wife and told her he could
hoodoo her husband out of Jail for ten dol
lors. She paid the money, and when Mat
thews fed the fraud was discovered.
Paul Llncke, a prominent farmer Of
Beaufort County, N. c., was shot dead
while asleep in bed few days ago. The
shooting was done by a prominent
young lawyer named VIM. A. Potts. Tho
latter has made full confession Of the
crime, but viii not say why he killed
Lincke.
Key West Is quarantined.
The City Council of Charleston, S. C.,
has presented to the earthquake commit
tee'' a handsome bronze plaque bearing
the seal of the city and the palmetto
wreath of the State, as a token of the
city's appreciation Of their services dur
ing the earthquake excitement.
The wife Of Wiley Moore, colored, living
on the plantation of Colonel S. Elmore,
near Greenwood, 8. c., locked her two
children, aged respectively one and two
years, in her house a few days ago, and
went to spend the day with a neighbor
about a mile distant. During her abs ence
the house was burned and the two chill
dren perished in the flames
Nearly two hundred new buildings have
been erected in Charles ston, s. c., within
the past eight months.
John Woody, a well-known citizen Of
Polk County, Tenn, was shot from am
bush, a few days ago, by unknown par
lies, and mortally wounded. He is one Of
the posse of detectives that shot and
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